Here are a few thoughts for my friends in the Gospel Coalition:
Monthly Archives: March 2015
HITLER’S CROSS
Lutzer, the longtime pastor of Moody Church in Chicago, has made an important contribution to our understanding of Nazi Germany.
Hitler’s Cross is a troubling account of how moral decay and timidity results in disaster. And the disaster, as was the case in Nazi Germany, is usually far more reaching than we could ever imagine.
I appreciated this book very much except for the author’s desire to tie Nazi ideology to a certain view of end times. For those who don’t hold to dispensational theology, they might be tempted to write the author off, and thus would sadly miss an important book.
SIN AND ACCOUNTABILITY
A good piece on why pastors (and the rest of us) make ourselves more vulnerable to serious sin.
I’ve talked with too many pastors (and non pastors) who have no real accountability.
http://garrettkell.com/pattern-among-fallen-pastors-lessons-us/
HT: Tim Challies
BEING FAITHFUL
One of my favorite living writers, Eugene Peterson, reflects on the faithfulness of his parents: